Magic in the Mountains Disabled Driving Experience to be held
June 26th & 27th in White Mountains of NH

Accessible Racing, and others, to hold 2 day Magic in the Mountains event allowing newly injured veterans and active disabled athletes to learn defensive driving with hand controls, the EXACT hand controls employed in the Accessible Racing stock car driving experience featured at White Mountain Motorsports Park Friday night June 26

May 7, 2009 - Plymouth, NH -- Accessible Racing, in conjunction with Loon Mountain, New England Disabled Sports, and White Mountain Motorsports Park will hold a stock car driving experience June 26 & 27, 2009 in the Lincoln-Woodstock area of New Hampshire. This event will allow newly injured veterans and active disabled athletes to learn defensive driving skills that they will employ to experience the worlds only ‘Arrive & Drive’ stock car driving experience for persons with physical disabilities. At White Mountain Motorsports Park.

Loon Mountain, in Lincoln, NH, will host the first driving skills school where students will learn the fine art of driving by applying classroom knowledge while driving under the close supervision of an experienced instructor. The instructor will be evaluating base line driving skills from the passenger seat, such as; under steering, over steering, steering with the throttle and threshold breaking. These basic building blocks are essential car control skills that prepare drivers with accident avoidance maneuvers to be applied in real world situations.

White Mountain Motorsports Park, in North Woodstock, NH, will then host the oval track driving experience under the lights which will emphasize the relationship of driver and car, giving the students the opportunity to learn their limitations and expand the capabilities needed to develop safe driving skills and habits conducted in a controlled environment.

Accessible Racing will be demonstrating their all new “VXP”, or “virtual x-perience”, driving simulator which is designed to allow disabled drivers to virtually test drive and train anywhere at any time. VXP uses iRacing.com software featuring real-time, internet based simulated racing competition for newly injured and active disabled athletes giving them the opportunity to hone driving skills, compete against other hand controlled drivers and emphasize multiple ladders of advancement.

Saturday Accessible Racing will hold the VXP Challenge where student drivers will have the opportunity to take on NASCAR’s elite in a competition using the VXP driving simulator. One driver from this challenge will be qualified for an additional driving event in September at White Mountain Motorsports Park.

Ultimately, VXP will qualify disabled persons from all over the world for the only “Arrive & Drive” experience in a real race car on a real track. Accessible Racing and its VXP driving simulator provide the only application of recreational and occupational therapy involving the exciting world of auto racing.

The primary benefit and long term objective of the virtual VXP driving simulator as well as this and future events is to make driving safe and fun as well as a rehabilitative therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones and combat injuries.

Registration for the event at Loon Mountain will begin at 9am on June 26th; driving experience starts at 10:30 am. Registration for the events at White Mountain Motorsports Park will begin at 10:30am, on June 26th & with driving experience starting at noon.

Accessible Racing is a 501(c)(3) corporation organized to develop, promote and regulate amateur auto racing by providing modified accessible racing vehicles for use at no cost to disabled and developmentally challenged individuals in a dual controlled, modified accessible racing vehicle.